Asymmetric synthesis of propargylamines as amino acid surrogates in peptidomimetics

• Matthias Wünsch,
• David Schröder,
• Tanja Fröhr,
• Lisa Teichmann,
• Sebastian Hedwig,
• Nils Janson,
• Clara Belu,
• Jasmin Simon,
• Shari Heidemeyer,
• Philipp Holtkamp,
• Jens Rudlof,
• Lennard Klemme,
• Alessa Hinzmann,
• Beate Neumann,
• Hans-Georg Stammler and
• Norbert Sewald

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2428–2441, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.240

• structure of fluorinated propargylamines occurs in important drugs, like HIV protease inhibitor DPC 961 and its analogues [78][79][80][81][82][83], particular effort was put on the synthesis of N-sulfinyl propargylamine 7k. Because of the poor electrophilicity of imines 5, the nucleophilic addition of

Curcuminoid–BF₂ complexes: Synthesis, fluorescence and optimization of BF₂ group cleavage

• Henning Weiss,
• Jeannine Reichel,
• Helmar Görls,
• Kilian Rolf Anton Schneider,
• Mathias Micheel,
• Michael Pröhl,
• Michael Gottschaldt,
• Benjamin Dietzek and
• Wolfgang Weigand

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2264–2272, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.223

• curcuma longa, and its analogues, the curcuminoids, have attracted much attention regarding their biological activities [1]. These include antioxidant [2] and radical scavenging [3], antitumor [4] and anti-inflammatory [5] activities, as well as HIV inhibition [6]. Despite showing activity against several

Phosphonic acid: preparation and applications

• Charlotte M. Sevrain,
• Mathieu Berchel,
• Hélène Couthon and
• Paul-Alain Jaffrès

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2186–2213, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.219

• [28], to prepare oil/water emulsions [29], or to prevent corrosion [30][31][32]. The ionic interactions between phosphonic acid and lipophilic amine produced catanionic supramolecular aggregates that were assessed as HIV inhibitors [26][33]. Many phosphonic acids are present in nature and their

• addition of POCl3 or PCl3 [222] is a method that produces in one step the aminomethylene bis-phosphonic acid [228] (Figure 33A). This methodology was applied to prepare the compound 119 [229] that was assessed as HIV-1 integrase inhibitor. Compound 120 [230] was prepared simply by the refluxing

High-speed vibration-milling-promoted synthesis of symmetrical frameworks containing two or three pyrrole units

• Marco Leonardi,
• Mercedes Villacampa and
• J. Carlos Menéndez

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1957–1962, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.190

• proved to be useful include the protease of the human immunodeficiency virus HIV [1], cellular prion protein, PrPc [2], and the transient receptor potential melastatin 8 (TRPM8) channel receptor [3]. The synthesis of these symmetrical molecules normally relies on multistep sequences. Due to the special

Synthesis of benzothiophene and indole derivatives through metal-free propargyl–allene rearrangement and allyl migration

• Jinzhong Yao,
• Yajie Xie,
• Lianpeng Zhang,
• Yujin Li and
• Hongwei Zhou

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1866–1870, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.181

• in natural products and pharmacologically active compounds, thus economic and efficient methods to construct heterocycles are always highly desirable [1][2][3][4][5][6]. Benzothiophenes are important heterocycles that are one of the key motifs of anti-inflammatory, anti-estrogenic and anti-HIV drugs

Ni nanoparticles on RGO as reusable heterogeneous catalyst: effect of Ni particle size and intermediate composite structures in C–S cross-coupling reaction

• Debasish Sengupta,
• Koushik Bhowmik,
• Goutam De and
• Basudeb Basu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1796–1806, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.174

• ; Introduction The formation of a carbon–sulfur bond is an imperative step for the synthesis of many biologically active chemical entities that have significant applications in different therapeutic areas such as HIV, cancer, diabetes, inflammation, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases etc. [1][2][3][4]. The

Sustainable synthesis of 3-substituted phthalides via a catalytic one-pot cascade strategy from 2-formylbenzoic acid with β-keto acids in glycerol

• Lina Jia and
• Fuzhong Han

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1425–1429, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.139

• [3][4][5], exhibit a broad spectrum of pharmacological activity, such as antibacterial, anti-HIV, antifungal, antibiotic, antitumor and immunosuppressive effects [6][7][8][9][10]. In addition, the one-pot cascade transformation has proven to be the key step in organic syntheses because of its broad

Switchable highly regioselective synthesis of 3,4-dihydroquinoxalin-2(1H)ones from o-phenylenediamines and aroylpyruvates

• Juraj Dobiaš,
• Marek Ondruš,
• Gabriela Addová and
• Andrej Boháč

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1350–1360, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.132

• , anticancer, anti-HIV, antithrombotic, analgesic and antidiabetic [1][2][3]. Substitution on C(3) of quinoxalin-2(1H)-ones 1 by substituents that possess a carbonyl group in a β side chain position 2, 3 significantly alters their chemical properties as suggested by 1H NMR, IR spectra and X-ray crystallography

An eco-compatible strategy for the diversity-oriented synthesis of macrocycles exploiting carbohydrate-derived building blocks

• Sushil K. Maurya and
• Rohit Rana

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1106–1118, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.110

• rings and have shown important biological properties [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. For example, macrocyclic aminoglycoside analogues have shown binding with the trans-activating region (TAR) RNA of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV); an attractive target for RNA-based drug discovery [13]. Further

Glyco-gold nanoparticles: synthesis and applications

• Federica Compostella,
• Olimpia Pitirollo,
• Alessandro Silvestri and
• Laura Polito

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1008–1021, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.100

• designing an ELISA approach to detect anti-carbohydrate antibodies. The innovative procedure exploited the use of very small AuNPs (2 nm) coated with tetrasaccharide epitopes of HIV gp120 or tetrasaccharide epitopes of Streptococcus pneumoniae Pn14PS. The GAuNPs so obtained were directly coated on

• commercial ELISA plates and anti-carbohydrate antibodies were detected in the nanomolar range both using purified anti-HIV human monoclonal antibodies or serum from immunized mice against S. pneumoniae. Detection of carbohydrate–influenza virus interactions The SERS methodology was extended to the

• treatment of HIV infection. β-D-Glucose coated AuNPs have been decorated with the antiviral drugs abacavir (ABC) and lamivudine (3TC) and used as delivery systems. These co-drug structures were able to release the drugs in acidic conditions to inhibit viral replication in cellular assays [91]. GAuNPs

N-Propargylamines: versatile building blocks in the construction of thiazole cores

• S. Arshadi,
• E. Vessally,
• L. Edjlali,
• R. Hosseinzadeh-Khanmiri and
• E. Ghorbani-Kalhor

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 625–638, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.61

• prevent gout flare-ups [5][6][7]. Ritonavir (norvir), is an HIV protease inhibitor. It works by blocking the growth of HIV [8][9]. Tiazofurin is a C-nucleoside analogue with antineoplastic activity and acts by inhibition of the guanosine triphosphate (GTP) biosynthesis through a reduction of PI and PIP

• derivatives) are also important structural motifs that are widely found in biologically active natural or synthetic products [44][45][46][47][48][49][50]. Compounds containing these rings have widespread biological applications as anticancer [51][52][53], anti-HIV [54][55], anti-inflammatory [56

Revaluation of biomass-derived furfuryl alcohol derivatives for the synthesis of carbocyclic nucleoside phosphonate analogues

• Bemba Sidi Mohamed,
• Christian Périgaud and
• Christophe Mathé

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 251–256, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.28

• some of the products have shown interesting antiviral activities. As part of our studies on carbocyclic nucleoside phosphonates [6] as potential anti-HIV agents [7][8], we envisioned to use bio-sourced racemic (+/−)-4-O-protected 2-cyclopentenone for the synthesis of hitherto unknown carbocyclic

• transposition giving rise to carbocyclic nucleoside phosphonates having structural similarity with carbonucleosides belonging to the neplanocin family. All the newly synthesized compounds were evaluated for their antiviral properties against HIV-1, Zika virus, Dengue-2 virus, HSV-1, HSV-2 and Chikungunya virus

Synthesis of structurally diverse 3,4-dihydropyrimidin-2(1H)-ones via sequential Biginelli and Passerini reactions

• Andreas C. Boukis,
• Baptiste Monney and
• Michael A. R. Meier

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 54–62, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.7

• modulation, α1a adrenoceptor-selective antagonists, cancer therapy, anti-HIV alkaloids) [12][13][14][15]. The mechanism of the Biginelli cyclocondensation was proposed and investigated by Kappe and is illustrated in Scheme 1a [16]. According to the generally accepted mechanism of the Biginelli reaction

First DMAP-mediated direct conversion of Morita–Baylis–Hillman alcohols into γ-ketoallylphosphonates: Synthesis of γ-aminoallylphosphonates

• Marwa Ayadi,
• Haitham Elleuch,
• Emmanuel Vrancken and
• Farhat Rezgui

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2906–2915, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.290

• . Indeed, they are known for their important role in medicinal chemistry [34][35][36] as anti-HIV agents, enzyme inhibitors and antibacterial agents. In addition, α- and β-aminophosphonates have been widely described in literature. However, γ-aminophosphonates have received much less attention. These

Computational methods in drug discovery

• Sumudu P. Leelananda and
• Steffen Lindert

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2694–2718, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.267

• membrane proteins where membrane permeability is considered to be important for drugs to be useful [10][11]. Successes have been reported for SBDD and it has contributed to many compounds reaching clinical trials and get FDA approvals to go into the market [12]. HIV-1 (Human Immunodeficiency Virus I

• ) protease is a prime drug target for anti-AIDS therapeutics. In the early 1990s many approved HIV protease inhibitors were developed to target HIV infections using structure-based molecular docking. It was a ground breaking success at that time and made it possible for HIV infected individuals to live

• longer than they could have without the treatment [13][14]. Saquinavir is one of the first HIV-1 protease targeted drugs to reach the market (Figure 2a and 2c) [15]. Amprenavir is another drug that was developed to target HIV-1 protease that was also developed influenced by SBDD (Figure 2b and 2d) [16

Interactions between cyclodextrins and cellular components: Towards greener medical applications?

• Loïc Leclercq

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2644–2662, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.261

Enduracididine, a rare amino acid component of peptide antibiotics: Natural products and synthesis

• Darcy J. Atkinson,
• Briar J. Naysmith,
• Daniel P. Furkert and
• Margaret A. Brimble

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2325–2342, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.226

• transglycosylation during peptidoglycan synthesis [23], the same step inhibited by vancomycin [24]. Enduracidin A (7) and B (8) also exhibited inhibition of avian myeloblastosis virus reverse transcriptase but did not suppress replication of HIV cells [25]. Enduracidin A (7) and B (8) have been produced by

An effective one-pot access to polynuclear dispiroheterocyclic structures comprising pyrrolidinyloxindole and imidazothiazolotriazine moieties via a 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition strategy

• Alexei N. Izmest’ev,
• Galina A. Gazieva,
• Natalya V. Sigay,
• Sergei A. Serkov,
• Valentina A. Karnoukhova,
• Vadim V. Kachala,
• Alexander S. Shashkov,
• Igor E. Zanin,
• Angelina N. Kravchenko and
• Nina N. Makhova

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2240–2249, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.216

• viruses [35], anti-HIV and anticancer [36][37], antimicrobial and antifungal activities as well as cytotoxicity to MCF-7 cells [38][39]. Based on these observations we therefore aimed at combining the spiropyrrolidinyloxindole motif with hetero-annelated 1,2,4-triazine scaffolds. Recently, we have already

One-pot synthesis of tetracyclic fused imidazo[1,2-a]pyridines via a three-component reaction

• Bo Yang,
• Chuanye Tao,
• Taofeng Shao,
• Jianxian Gong and
• Chao Che

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1487–1492, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.145

• broad range of biological activities such as antibacterial [11][12][13], antiviral [14][15], anti-inflammatory [16][17], antitumor [18][19][20], and anti-HIV [21]. It is found as the core structure in several drugs such as Zolpidem, Alpidem and Zolimidine (approved for treatments of insomnia, anxiety

Application of Cu(I)-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition for the design and synthesis of sequence specific probes targeting double-stranded DNA

• Svetlana V. Vasilyeva,
• Vyacheslav V. Filichev and
• Alexandre S. Boutorine

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1348–1360, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.128

• atom in the chain, and 10 possessing several ethylene glycol moieties were used to increase the solubility of modified polyamides in water. Selection of the target DNA and design of TFOs and MGBs The polypurine tract of the HIV-1 provirus is a valuable target for MGB-TFO conjugates [35]. It has a 16-bp

• polypurine site suitable for DNA triplex formation and overlaps with an A:T tract which is an ideal target for easily synthesized MGB containing only N-methylpyrrole moieties (Figure 4). For convenience of our work, a fluorescently labeled T4 hairpin covalent duplex containing the 29 base pair HIV polypurine

• -aminobutyric acid, Py – N-methylpyrrole carboxamide and Dp – N,N-dimethylaminopropylamine residues) was synthesized in the laboratory by solid-phase method [36][37] and used as a polyamide component. The first model is interesting for an anti-HIV strategy, but it is not suitable for visualization of dsDNA

Cyclisation mechanisms in the biosynthesis of ribosomally synthesised and post-translationally modified peptides

• Andrew W. Truman

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1250–1268, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.120

• intrinsic requirement to be assembled from proteinogenic amino acids. The vast chemical space occupied by RiPPs means that they possess a wide variety of biological activities, and the class includes antibiotics, co-factors, signalling molecules, anticancer and anti-HIV compounds, and toxins. A considerable

• formed by the head-to-tail cyclisation of two nonapeptides that are themselves derived from the C-terminal region of precursor peptides, and both heterodimers or homodimers can be formed in this process [84][144]. Along with their antimicrobial activity, these peptides can inhibit fusion of HIV-1 to host

Catalytic asymmetric synthesis of biologically important 3-hydroxyoxindoles: an update

• Bin Yu,
• Hui Xing,
• De-Quan Yu and
• Hong-Min Liu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1000–1039, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.98

• applied to the synthesis of a drug candidate, which had been proved to possess better inhibitory activity than efavirenz against HIV-1 reverse transcriptase [19]. Besides, the reactions may provide an efficient route to the optically pure propargylic alcohols. Ir-catalyzed synthesis of 3-hydroxyoxindoles

Opportunities and challenges for direct C–H functionalization of piperazines

• Zhishi Ye,
• Kristen E. Gettys and
• Mingji Dai

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 702–715, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.70

• used to treat HIV/AIDS [5]. Gatifloxacin is an important fluoroquinolone antibiotic [6]. Despite the high frequency appearance of piperazines in small-molecule pharmaceuticals, over 80% only contain substituents at the two nitrogen atoms and a very small fraction of them have simple carbon

Biosynthesis of α-pyrones

• Till F. Schäberle

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 571–588, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.56

• (Figure 1) [7]. α-Pyrones have also been shown to be HIV protease [8][9][10] and selective COX-2 inhibitors [11][12], and further, signaling functions were attributed to them. Already in the 1990s an unusual dialkyl-substituted α-pyrone (supellapyrone, 7) was detected to be the cockroach sex pheromone [13

• identified as a lead template with HIV protease inhibitory activity, i.e., Ki = 1 µM [64]. However, the prototype of these anticoagulant drugs was dicoumarol (60), which was in use until it was replaced by other derivatives, e.g., 58 and 59 [65]. Aflatoxins are poisonous and cancer-causing monobenzo-α

The aminoindanol core as a key scaffold in bifunctional organocatalysts

• Isaac G. Sonsona,
• Eugenia Marqués-López and
• Raquel P. Herrera

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 505–523, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.50

• also belong to a class of privileged pharmaceutical scaffolds and exhibit different biological activities, as it is the case of Crixivan [37][38], an HIV protease inhibitor which has been employed for AIDS treatment. The thermodynamic unfavorable cis conformation of these compounds represents a